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Kumara Times, Issue 1032, 22 January 1880, Page 4

H.M.S. Cormorant, which arrived at Wellington from Auckland on Sunday is a 6-gun sloop pf 1139 tons register, and carries a crew of 139. She is a composite vessel, haying no armour plating other than a steel lining to the bulwarks for protecting the men against bullet splinters. She has two decks, on the upper side of which she carries the, six guns which, form her armament. These consist of two. Tin 4£-ton guns, carrying 1151 b projecti'es, and four 64 pounders, two of which, are on slides and two on trucks. Her engines are on the compound principle, and are 950 horsepower. The Cormorant is the first vessel visiting New Zealand waters which is fitted with a feathering screw. When it is desired to put the vessel under canvas instead of steam, she is brought to, and in 10 or 15 minutes the feathering of the bLdes of the screw is accomplished by the mere turning of a handle, which works a complicated arrangement of levers within the shaft and the screw, and the vessel is then ready to be got under weigh with the sails. The owners of the barque Pride of Devon, of Plymouth, which has arrived at Monte Video, have received a letter from her captain, stating that on the voyage, in latitude 18 N, longitude 25 W, on 13th August last, he fell in with the Golden Gate, a small ligged boat of about one ton and a halfmeasurement, only 19ft long and about sft beam, 51 days out from Boston, and bound for Melbourne, Her crew consisted of two men, one being named Brill, They had already been twice capsiz:d, had had various escapes, and had lost some of their provisions and water. They were then making for St Jago, Cape de Verdes, for stores and to refit. Captain Pinkham, of the Piide of Devon, sajplied them with what they immediately required, and since then the Golden Gate has x ever been heard of. As it is now five months, ago, there seemsto be much reason to feat that this foolhardy venture has terminated fatally,—European Mail,